Lot 61
  • 61

John George Brown

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • John George Brown
  • The Lost Child
  • signed J.G. Brown N.A. and dated 1881. (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 29 by 44 inches
  • (73.7 by 111.8 cm)

Provenance

Private collection (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 29, 1986, lot 65)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

Springfield, Massachusetts, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum; New York, National Academy of Design; Omaha, Nebraska, Joslyn Art Museum, Country Paths and City Sidewalks: The Art of J.G. Brown, March-December 1989, no. 26, pp. 22-25, 49, illustrated p. 40

Literature

Harper's Weekly, vol. 26, April 1, 1882, p. 9, illustrated 
Martha Hoppin, The World of J.G. Brown, Chesterfield, Massachusetts, 2010, pp. 16, 169, 182, 186, illustrated pp. 184-85

Condition

The canvas is lined and the edges are covered with tape. There is fine surface cracking in sidewalk. There are a few dots of surface accretion in the background and the surface may be slightly dirty. Under UV: there is inpainting to frame abrasion. There are small areas of inpainting on either side of the boy fifth from right's head, and an area in the cap of third boy from right. There are a few other scattered dots.
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